Zucker told Charlie Rose he has been getting death threats.
Zucker and Conan were rivals at Harvard. Zucker even got Conan arrested:
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/cul...n-rivalry.html
Zucker and O’Brien first encountered each other at Harvard in the 1980s, during a heated period of the Crimson/Lampoon rivalry,when O’Brien hijacked a shipment of Crimson issues the day before they could be delivered. As O’Brien once told Business Week, “My first meeting with Jeff Zucker was in handcuffs, with a Cambridge police officer reading me my rights.”